"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns, Melinoë is a rare example of chthonic nymph, an underworld being harbinger and inspirator of madness, nightmares and other fancy stuff. She’s a daughter of Persephone and Zeus, who tricked the Queen of the Underworld by disguising himself as her husband, Hades, and… well, she wasn’t happy about this. You can read more today on my Patreon.
There’s a game I’d like to play (queue The Cranberries): take two EIRs from the last month, any project really, and delete project name and phase. Then place them in front of somebody else and ask them to guess. Which kind of project? Is it
This is, without any doubt, one of the best collections in the series, and notably one with aliens of many sorts: Martians and Venusians with a different approach to warfare and radically original new senses, and Ganimedians who just want what’s due for Christmas. What
As I was saying a few days ago, some of Cixin Liu’s short stories have been adapted into wonderful graphic novels. This one is a heartfelt story that touches many topics that are dear to the author’s heart, mainly the importance of knowledge and the
There’s a game I’d like to play (queue The Cranberries): take two EIRs from the last month, any project really, and delete project name and phase. Then place them in front of somebody else and ask them to guess. Which kind of project? Is it
This is, without any doubt, one of the best collections in the series, and notably one with aliens of many sorts: Martians and Venusians with a different approach to warfare and radically original new senses, and Ganimedians who just want what’s due for Christmas. What
As I was saying a few days ago, some of Cixin Liu’s short stories have been adapted into wonderful graphic novels. This one is a heartfelt story that touches many topics that are dear to the author’s heart, mainly the importance of knowledge and the
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